"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi there this is ranit and in this week of uh weekly talks I'm going to talk on a very common topic uh that most of you might know these steps but I still get a lot of questions regarding this topic every week a dozen of them uh so I thought of making a video on this and this is about uh uh simple battery uh what do you say care and tips that you should take and most of them will revolve around the smartphone but some of the things that I'm going to talk also relate to uh laptops uh so let's go over it and by the way I'm recording this video with the OnePlus 3's front-facing camera but for audio I'm using this road Lael mic uh because I know in outdoor conditions like this it's very windy the audio pickup the internal microphone of the OnePlus 3 is not that great so let me Mount this over the tripod so let's continue and these days uh most of the smartphones actually come with lithium ion or Lithium Polymer battery uh so I won't get into into details about the chemistry and stuff like that uh but there is a lot of myth that and I get this question a lot uh should if we get a new smartphone or a new Gadget or something like that should we charge it overnight like for 9 or 10 hours I get this question a lot and the fact is that you don't have to do it uh yes you had to do it with earlier older devices that use the nickel battery uh for that you had to do it but with the new devices that come with lithium ion and Lithium Polymer and almost all smartphones use that so you don't have to do that uh I would suggest that when you get a new smartphone uh just when it get it just charge it fully till 100% uh that should be charged within about 1 and a half or 2 hours based on your smartphone and just start using it normally I would say and initially first you get the new smartphone or any new Gadget the battery life uh will not be that great it takes a couple of Cycles generally between four or five Cycles to the for the battery to get Prime and after that you start getting decent battery life and one mistake that I noticed that many people do is that they try to actually drain the battery completely on their mobile phones or even laptops and stuff like that never do that it is really really bad for the battery especially lithium and Lithium Polymer batteries they don't like to be discharged completely ideally I would say uh if you can actually uh don't allow the battery to fall below 20% that will be the best option I would say uh think of this like jogging okay yeah you can uh uh run really fast like a marathon but again if you do that every day that puts a lot of strain on you this the similar case with lithium batteries I would say uh ideally charge it uh before it falls below 20% and that should give you a better uh battery uh I've noticed some of people that completely drain the battery uh yes you can do that sometimes if you're outside you need to use the phone but generally don't drain the battery completely and charge uh next thing is that uh also I get this question a lot uh with lithium ion batteries it's perfect ly safe and ideal actually to do small top UPS what I mean by that let's say your battery is now at about uh 50 or 60% yes you can easily plug into a charger and top it up that's actually uh really great because these days many times we sit in the office and stuff doing working and just plug in your phone and charge it uh so topups are actually recommended with the lithium and batteries and again topup range I would say uh ideal topup range would be anywhere between 40 to about 70% I would not charge a device that's a laptop or a mobile if it's charged around say 85 or 90% I won't do that but yeah if it falls down to the range that I'm talking 40 to uh 70% then it's uh decent to do a top up charge also the biggest uh what do you say health concerns for battery is heat uh the higher the heat is generated uh higher the chances of the battery life to be declining and uh uh so actually wherever you charge just don't charge in a very hot area and specifically uh if you're using uh fast charges generally we are getting fast charges with many of the new mobiles but if you have noticed generally with fast charges the mobiles get pretty hot so don't charge in a very closed room or something like that it actually aggravates and in fact I would say if you're not in a uh hurry I would say just try to avoid fast charges because one interesting thing that I've noticed is that and I've tested this on multiple device not just with one brand or something like that uh with a fast charger yes the advantage is that it charges very quickly uh within an hour just over an hour you can get almost uh full charge that's great uh but what I have noticed is that the same device instead of using the supplied fast charger if I just use a normal charger not a very fast charger like a 1.5 amp charger yes it'll definitely take a lot more time to charge but the battery life that I got while doing that was actually uh the phone did last uh quite longer for example almost 20% more battery life I was getting uh using that so if you're a person uh who charges the phone overnight at for example before you go to sleep many of us just uh put our phone on charger uh just avoid using fast charger just use a normal charger like 1.5 amp or even a 1 amp charger uh that way you will get better battery life and also uh while using a uh what do you say 1.5 or one uh normal charger the phone does not heat up that much but again yes if you're on a hurry it's perfectly fine to use the quick charges that are supplied the only exception that I've seen is this new walk charger by OnePlus uh sorry by uh Oppo that is also used on the OnePlus they call it the dash charger that is the only charger that I've noticed that's a fast charger when you use it the phone does not heat up but with other even with Qualcomm 2 and Qualcomm 3 uh the if you use those fast charger the phone tends to heat up uh pretty uh quickly also another thing that most of us don't notice is that always try to use the supply charging cable that is supplied with your charger uh because I have done a lot of mix and matching and I've noticed that if you use low quality what do you say charging cables uh it does take quite a bit more time to charge the device generally with a genuine charger you'll notice that if you pick up the charging cable uh for example qualcom 2 or qualcom 3 certified Chargers cable they are having a lot thicker C uh gauge so it's always advisable to use the supplied charging cable because with uh some of the cheap Chinese cables that I've knows the charging rate was simply though the charger was the same it did take quite a bit longer to charge the device also one big uh myth uh that I uh do get this question a lot is that these days many of the smartphones actually come with sealed battery that is the battery is not user replaceable uh but the fact is that uh yes you cannot actually uh replace the battery uh yourself without tearing open the phone and avoiding the warranty but uh most of the service centers can easily uh replace the battery even this is valid for uh iPhone so don't think that if your phone is having a sealed battery the battery cannot be replaced it can be replaced by the service center apart from some very specific phone some of the Xperia waterproof models I heard that in those the battery could not be replaced but apart from that most of the other phones the battery could be replaced by the service center and uh generally with every smartphone or every device even a laptop the battery will degrade as you use it that is how batteries are uh every time you put in a charge or discharge it there this is known as a cycle uh so it discharges generally with smartphones these manufacturers sadly do not uh actually tell us uh what is the lifeline or the chart cycle generally for highend laptops for example the MacBook Pro or even the Surface Pro Etc uh these manufacturers do uh list the chart cycle that's about th000 chart cycle but sadly for smartphones these manufacturers are not giving us the uh specified chart Cycles but uh from rumors again I'm quoting this is rumors it's generally around 500 chge cycle so with typical days uh usage the regular usage if you take good care of your uh phone don't discharge it completely uh to less than 5% every day it should theoretically and if you take good care don't allow it to heat up that much a typical battery should last anywhere between 2 and a half to 3 years before showing significant degradation every battery will degrade over time that is the amount of charge it can hold but uh if you take care it should easily last for about 2 and 1 half to 3 years also this is one more tip and this is might not be applicable directly to smartphones uh but this is applicable if you have a uh laptop and personally guys I've actually destroyed one of my laptops because I didn't follow this step this is about 14 years ago I had a Del latitude laptop pretty expensive at that time and uh I almost destroyed uh its battery uh because uh laptops were new uh during that time and I used to just casually use it and I used to just charge it uh while using it on the bed and sometimes I used to just charge it while it was sitting on the bed and even sitting on a pillow the thing is that with laptops and stuff if you notice they generally dissipate the heat from the bottom and when you place it on a bed or if you place it on a pillow or something you are actually blocking that so the heat builds up and as I've told you uh earlier heat is the biggest enemy for batteries and in fact uh that laptop if I recall the battery degraded the charge it could hold degraded within 4 months and at that time the battery for laptops were very expensive I think so the replacement was 10,000 rupees at that time so again if you have a laptop or something like that don't charge it on the bed or specifically on pillows where you are blocking these laptops everything for example MacBook Pro or whatever if you notice just uh when it's charging or something just uh uh touch the back portion they get pretty hot that's how they uh dissipate the heat so bad idea to put it on a pillow or uh what do you say bed and in fact I would say even with the smartphones that have metallic back when you charge them specifically with quick charg you'll notice that they get pretty warm at the back uh that's how they actually dissipate the heat so it's a bad idea to put it on a Surface like a bed or on a blanket or something that will uh not allow it to dissipate the heat so if you follow these tips I would say you should get good battery life and certainly if you get a new smartphone you don't have to charge it for 10 hours uh initially before uh actually using the device and if you actually uh have a laptop or a a Windows laptop or even a Mac uh book or whatever you can actually gauge the amount of uh charge cycles that you have for example uh on Windows I use this free software on my Surface Pro 4 that is known as battery bar and uh it just sits on the system tray and you can actually uh when it's installed you can click on it and you can actually know in the percentage how much is your battery wear and we have similar uh applications even for Mac so if you are specifically buying a secondhand laptop or even a Macbook or whatever it's a good idea to actually check uh how much is the battery wear uh because many people don't look at that that's a good idea to look at it because with some of the laptops specifically if I recall the MacBook Pro Etc the battery Replacements are still very expensive so I hope uh this video makes sense and it is uh helpful again if you found this video helpful I'll appreciate if you can uh hit the Subscribe button if you aren't subscribed and if you like this video hit that like button again thanks for watching this video guys uh again I hope to see you very soon thanks for watching this is ranit and I hope to see you in my next videohi there this is ranit and in this week of uh weekly talks I'm going to talk on a very common topic uh that most of you might know these steps but I still get a lot of questions regarding this topic every week a dozen of them uh so I thought of making a video on this and this is about uh uh simple battery uh what do you say care and tips that you should take and most of them will revolve around the smartphone but some of the things that I'm going to talk also relate to uh laptops uh so let's go over it and by the way I'm recording this video with the OnePlus 3's front-facing camera but for audio I'm using this road Lael mic uh because I know in outdoor conditions like this it's very windy the audio pickup the internal microphone of the OnePlus 3 is not that great so let me Mount this over the tripod so let's continue and these days uh most of the smartphones actually come with lithium ion or Lithium Polymer battery uh so I won't get into into details about the chemistry and stuff like that uh but there is a lot of myth that and I get this question a lot uh should if we get a new smartphone or a new Gadget or something like that should we charge it overnight like for 9 or 10 hours I get this question a lot and the fact is that you don't have to do it uh yes you had to do it with earlier older devices that use the nickel battery uh for that you had to do it but with the new devices that come with lithium ion and Lithium Polymer and almost all smartphones use that so you don't have to do that uh I would suggest that when you get a new smartphone uh just when it get it just charge it fully till 100% uh that should be charged within about 1 and a half or 2 hours based on your smartphone and just start using it normally I would say and initially first you get the new smartphone or any new Gadget the battery life uh will not be that great it takes a couple of Cycles generally between four or five Cycles to the for the battery to get Prime and after that you start getting decent battery life and one mistake that I noticed that many people do is that they try to actually drain the battery completely on their mobile phones or even laptops and stuff like that never do that it is really really bad for the battery especially lithium and Lithium Polymer batteries they don't like to be discharged completely ideally I would say uh if you can actually uh don't allow the battery to fall below 20% that will be the best option I would say uh think of this like jogging okay yeah you can uh uh run really fast like a marathon but again if you do that every day that puts a lot of strain on you this the similar case with lithium batteries I would say uh ideally charge it uh before it falls below 20% and that should give you a better uh battery uh I've noticed some of people that completely drain the battery uh yes you can do that sometimes if you're outside you need to use the phone but generally don't drain the battery completely and charge uh next thing is that uh also I get this question a lot uh with lithium ion batteries it's perfect ly safe and ideal actually to do small top UPS what I mean by that let's say your battery is now at about uh 50 or 60% yes you can easily plug into a charger and top it up that's actually uh really great because these days many times we sit in the office and stuff doing working and just plug in your phone and charge it uh so topups are actually recommended with the lithium and batteries and again topup range I would say uh ideal topup range would be anywhere between 40 to about 70% I would not charge a device that's a laptop or a mobile if it's charged around say 85 or 90% I won't do that but yeah if it falls down to the range that I'm talking 40 to uh 70% then it's uh decent to do a top up charge also the biggest uh what do you say health concerns for battery is heat uh the higher the heat is generated uh higher the chances of the battery life to be declining and uh uh so actually wherever you charge just don't charge in a very hot area and specifically uh if you're using uh fast charges generally we are getting fast charges with many of the new mobiles but if you have noticed generally with fast charges the mobiles get pretty hot so don't charge in a very closed room or something like that it actually aggravates and in fact I would say if you're not in a uh hurry I would say just try to avoid fast charges because one interesting thing that I've noticed is that and I've tested this on multiple device not just with one brand or something like that uh with a fast charger yes the advantage is that it charges very quickly uh within an hour just over an hour you can get almost uh full charge that's great uh but what I have noticed is that the same device instead of using the supplied fast charger if I just use a normal charger not a very fast charger like a 1.5 amp charger yes it'll definitely take a lot more time to charge but the battery life that I got while doing that was actually uh the phone did last uh quite longer for example almost 20% more battery life I was getting uh using that so if you're a person uh who charges the phone overnight at for example before you go to sleep many of us just uh put our phone on charger uh just avoid using fast charger just use a normal charger like 1.5 amp or even a 1 amp charger uh that way you will get better battery life and also uh while using a uh what do you say 1.5 or one uh normal charger the phone does not heat up that much but again yes if you're on a hurry it's perfectly fine to use the quick charges that are supplied the only exception that I've seen is this new walk charger by OnePlus uh sorry by uh Oppo that is also used on the OnePlus they call it the dash charger that is the only charger that I've noticed that's a fast charger when you use it the phone does not heat up but with other even with Qualcomm 2 and Qualcomm 3 uh the if you use those fast charger the phone tends to heat up uh pretty uh quickly also another thing that most of us don't notice is that always try to use the supply charging cable that is supplied with your charger uh because I have done a lot of mix and matching and I've noticed that if you use low quality what do you say charging cables uh it does take quite a bit more time to charge the device generally with a genuine charger you'll notice that if you pick up the charging cable uh for example qualcom 2 or qualcom 3 certified Chargers cable they are having a lot thicker C uh gauge so it's always advisable to use the supplied charging cable because with uh some of the cheap Chinese cables that I've knows the charging rate was simply though the charger was the same it did take quite a bit longer to charge the device also one big uh myth uh that I uh do get this question a lot is that these days many of the smartphones actually come with sealed battery that is the battery is not user replaceable uh but the fact is that uh yes you cannot actually uh replace the battery uh yourself without tearing open the phone and avoiding the warranty but uh most of the service centers can easily uh replace the battery even this is valid for uh iPhone so don't think that if your phone is having a sealed battery the battery cannot be replaced it can be replaced by the service center apart from some very specific phone some of the Xperia waterproof models I heard that in those the battery could not be replaced but apart from that most of the other phones the battery could be replaced by the service center and uh generally with every smartphone or every device even a laptop the battery will degrade as you use it that is how batteries are uh every time you put in a charge or discharge it there this is known as a cycle uh so it discharges generally with smartphones these manufacturers sadly do not uh actually tell us uh what is the lifeline or the chart cycle generally for highend laptops for example the MacBook Pro or even the Surface Pro Etc uh these manufacturers do uh list the chart cycle that's about th000 chart cycle but sadly for smartphones these manufacturers are not giving us the uh specified chart Cycles but uh from rumors again I'm quoting this is rumors it's generally around 500 chge cycle so with typical days uh usage the regular usage if you take good care of your uh phone don't discharge it completely uh to less than 5% every day it should theoretically and if you take good care don't allow it to heat up that much a typical battery should last anywhere between 2 and a half to 3 years before showing significant degradation every battery will degrade over time that is the amount of charge it can hold but uh if you take care it should easily last for about 2 and 1 half to 3 years also this is one more tip and this is might not be applicable directly to smartphones uh but this is applicable if you have a uh laptop and personally guys I've actually destroyed one of my laptops because I didn't follow this step this is about 14 years ago I had a Del latitude laptop pretty expensive at that time and uh I almost destroyed uh its battery uh because uh laptops were new uh during that time and I used to just casually use it and I used to just charge it uh while using it on the bed and sometimes I used to just charge it while it was sitting on the bed and even sitting on a pillow the thing is that with laptops and stuff if you notice they generally dissipate the heat from the bottom and when you place it on a bed or if you place it on a pillow or something you are actually blocking that so the heat builds up and as I've told you uh earlier heat is the biggest enemy for batteries and in fact uh that laptop if I recall the battery degraded the charge it could hold degraded within 4 months and at that time the battery for laptops were very expensive I think so the replacement was 10,000 rupees at that time so again if you have a laptop or something like that don't charge it on the bed or specifically on pillows where you are blocking these laptops everything for example MacBook Pro or whatever if you notice just uh when it's charging or something just uh uh touch the back portion they get pretty hot that's how they uh dissipate the heat so bad idea to put it on a pillow or uh what do you say bed and in fact I would say even with the smartphones that have metallic back when you charge them specifically with quick charg you'll notice that they get pretty warm at the back uh that's how they actually dissipate the heat so it's a bad idea to put it on a Surface like a bed or on a blanket or something that will uh not allow it to dissipate the heat so if you follow these tips I would say you should get good battery life and certainly if you get a new smartphone you don't have to charge it for 10 hours uh initially before uh actually using the device and if you actually uh have a laptop or a a Windows laptop or even a Mac uh book or whatever you can actually gauge the amount of uh charge cycles that you have for example uh on Windows I use this free software on my Surface Pro 4 that is known as battery bar and uh it just sits on the system tray and you can actually uh when it's installed you can click on it and you can actually know in the percentage how much is your battery wear and we have similar uh applications even for Mac so if you are specifically buying a secondhand laptop or even a Macbook or whatever it's a good idea to actually check uh how much is the battery wear uh because many people don't look at that that's a good idea to look at it because with some of the laptops specifically if I recall the MacBook Pro Etc the battery Replacements are still very expensive so I hope uh this video makes sense and it is uh helpful again if you found this video helpful I'll appreciate if you can uh hit the Subscribe button if you aren't subscribed and if you like this video hit that like button again thanks for watching this video guys uh again I hope to see you very soon thanks for watching this is ranit and I hope to see you in my next video\n"